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Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis

Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

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Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...

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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions – from the economic effects of party control of...

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The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A

Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...

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Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer

Feess, Eberhard; Gerfin, Michael; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...

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Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players

Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether the quality of the game deteriorates as the stakes become...

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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...

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Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment

Henderson, Daniel J.; Olbrecht, Alexandre; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper investigates how students’ collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic...

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Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football

Feess, Eberhard; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We analyze the impact of three different transfer fee systems on payoffs, contract lengths, training and effort incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 ("Pre-Bosman" or P), currently in use ("Bosman" or B), and recently approved ("Monti" or M) differ with...

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The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball

Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...

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